07-Nov-2005  (yacht cruise)

• 'Hoards sail into open day (The Border Mail)
SAILORS and potential sailors flocked to Lake Hume yesterday to cruise its waters during the Albury-Wodonga yacht Club open day. The club attracted more than 80 visitors, hosting children from four years old through to retired sailors.
• 'TELL US WHERE TO GO . . . EXTENDED ONE WEEK (Miami Herald)
Because of power outages due to Hurricane Wilma, we've extended our annual survey by a week. This is your last chance to tell us where to go . . . and be entered in our contest to win a trip to the Bahamas.
• 'Walters deems Cruise, Hatcher 'Fascinating' (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Tom Cruise, Teri Hatcher and Kanye West are among the names on Barbara Walters' list of the 10 most fascinating people of 2005. The list also includes Lance Armstrong, Michael Jackson's lawyer Tom Mesereau and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, ABC announced Monday.
• 'Fidelity dwarf says he's in demand (CNN Money)
A dwarf who worked a March 2003 bachelor party thrown for ex-Fidelity Investments trader Thomas Bruderman said Thursday that one of the clients who hired him for that event wants to hire him again, this time for a party in the Bahamas this very weekend.
• 'Minister: no secret prisons in Lithuania (Baltic Times)
VILNIUS - Vice-Minister of Justice Gintaras Svedas ensured the public that there were no prisons in Lithuania where the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency keeps and interrogates members of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda.
• 'Tenth blast rocks Pae St. (Baltic Times)
TALLINN ? The city government ruled on Nov. 4 to increase a reward for information leading to the person responsible for a series of bomb attacks in Pae St.. The bounty will be boosted to one million kroons (64,000 euros), and paid out on the basis of security-police letter confirming the supplied information, spokespeople for the city government told the Baltic News Service.
• 'For Rent: My Yacht. I'll Throw in the Jacuzzi. (New York Times)
Some owners of superyachts are increasingly inviting other wealthy vacationers to help pay the bills.
• 'Superyacht owners invite vacationers to help pay bills (International Herald Tribune)
It is said that owning a boat is like throwing money into the sea. For many owners of $20 million or $30 million yachts, economizing may not be top of mind. But some owners of these luxurious superyachts - boats more than 100 feet long - are increasingly inviting other wealthy vacationers to help pay the bills.
• 'Gozo and the 2006 Budget (Times of Malta)
From a total expenditure of Lm858,872,000, Gozo will get Lm20,519,200, or almost 2.4 per cent in the Budget for 2006. The biggest chunk of this sum will be spent on salaries.
• 'Local teen rocks out at Weezer concert (Seattle Times)
Hollywood couldn't have written a better script for Donny Franklin of Bothell. The 16-year-old, picked from the sea of fans at the recent...